Book presentation and collective reading: We Circle Through The Night And Are Consumed By Fire

Name: Book presentation and collective reading: We Circle Through The Night And Are Consumed By Fire
Start: 2025-10-15T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Hallings gate 3, 0170 Oslo, Norway

Schedule

Wed, 15 Oct, 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Hallings gate 3, 0170 Oslo, Norway | Oslo, OS

Welcome to a collective reading and presentation of the book "We Circle Through The Night And Are Consumed By Fire" by Simon Asencio & Pauline Hatzigeorgiou (eds.)

16:00-18:00: Collective reading, excerpts of Samuel R. Delany’s Through The Valley of The Nest Of Spiders.
18:00: Presentation of the book We Circle Through The Night And Are Consumed By Fire (ed. Pauline Hatzigeorgiou & Simon Asencio)

This publication acts as a postscriptum to the exhibition project Through The Valley of The Nest of Spiders by Simon Asencio for SB34—The Pool in Brussels. Dedicated to Samuel R. Delany's sci-fi and sexutopia novel, the exhibition was conceived as a process of annotating the book, expanding on the ethics discussed by the characters of the novel through installation, performative readings and with the complicity of other artists and their works. This devious object pursues such an intertextual process, extending and disseminating the writings forged by the exhibition.
With contributions by: Reinhold Aman, Henry Andersen, Simon Asencio, Jen Brodie, Chloe Chignell, Jack Cox, Samuel R. Delany, Diana Duta, Loucka Fiagan, gladys, Stefa Govaart, Sean Gurd, Pauline Hatzigeorgiou, Maxime Jean-Baptiste, Bernard-Marie Koltès, David J. Melnick, Matthieu Michaut, Margaret Miller, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Anouchka Oler Nussbaum, Grisélidis Réal, Páola Revenióti, Sabrina Seifried, Raphaëlle Serres, Valerie Solanas, sabrina soyer, Megan Susman.
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Simon Asencio:
Using research methodologies specific to performance, literature and critical pedagogy, the work of Simon Asencio takes the form of performances, publications, exhibitions, collective study situations, and co-creation projects. His current research focuses on the forms of sociability generated by textual practices, particularly in their relationship between poetic practice and political engagement.
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Norma T's bookshop will be open during the event.